Emma Wiles
Isabel Anderson Career Development Professor, Information Systems
Assistant Professor, Information Systems
I hold the Isabel Anderson Career Development Professorship at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, and am an Assistant Professor in the Information Systems group. I am also a digital fellow at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and a faculty fellow in BU’s Digital Business Institute. My research is primarily focused on artificial intelligence in labor markets and the design of online platforms and I have published in journals such as Management Science, Journal of Public Economics, and AEJ: Economic Policy.
I am the Principal Investigator of the Human-AI Interaction in Recruiting & Employment (HIRE) Lab where we use large-scale platform data and randomized experiments in the lab and field to understand search and matching in the digital age.
I received my PhD from MIT Sloan in 2024. My dissertation titled “Artificial Intelligence and Labor Market Matching” won the University of Padua’s International PhD Thesis Award in Artificial Intelligence in Entrepreneurship and Management (AIEM).
My CV is here.
Publications
Wiles, E., Krayer, L., Abbadi, M. (In Press). “GenAI as an Exoskeleton: Experimental Evidence on Knowledge Workers Using GenAI on New Skills”, Nature Human Behaviour
Wiles, E., Munyikwa, Z., Horton, J. (In Press). “Algorithmic Writing Assistance on Jobseekers’ Resumes Increases Hires”, Management science
Jardim, E., Long, M., Plotnick, R., Vigdor, J., Wiles, E. (2024). “Local minimum wage laws, boundary discontinuity methods, and policy spillovers”, Journal of Public Economics, 234 105131-105131
Jardim, E., Long, M., Plotnick, R., van Inwegen, E., Vigdor, J., Wething, H. (2022). “Minimum-Wage Increases and Low-Wage Employment: Evidence from Seattle”, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 14 (2), 263-314